Aaliyah

Did You Know?

• Aaliyah's music career began on 'Star Search' where she silenced the audience with her amazing voice and talent.
• Born in New York, Aaliyah's family moved to Detroit when she was five where she grew up.
• Aaliyah graduated from Detroit's Performing Arts High School, even though her major was dance, not music. Regardless, she carried a 4.0 GPA.
• She signed for her first album when she was 15 years old.
• Aaliyah met musician/composer R. Kelly when she was 15 and the two were soon married. But the marriage was even more quickly annulled since she was 15 and he was in his mid-20s.
• Aaliyah made covering her left eye with her hair one of her trademarks.
• Aaliyah died on August 25, 2001 in a plane crash over the Bahamas. She was flying home after shooting a music video.
• Aaliyah is Arabic for "highest, most exalted one."
• When she was 11-years-old, Aaliyah sang with Gladys Knight in Las Vegas.
• Aaliyah was dating Damon Dash, a music label CEO at the time of her death.
• She was the first female to have a posthumous number one hit as her song "More Than A Women" topped the UK charts.
• Aaliyah had a dove tattoo in memory of her grandmother.

Actor Credits

1. Hip-Hop VIPs (2003)
2. The Queen Of The Damned (2002)
3. Romeo Must Die (2000)

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